The volcanic eruption that ravaged Pompeii in year 79 is one of the most famous in history. It is known how its victims died, but how did they live? A new insight into the lives of the people who lived in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius before its cataclysmic eruption.

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lyg...

The devious general Cethegus plays the Byzantine and Gothic forces against each other for his own ga...
A documentary with and about the legendary Italian Architect Carlo Scarpa.

Terry Jones' Barbarians is a 4-part TV documentary series first broadcast on BBC 2 in 2006. It was w...

The Kush Empire was an ancient superpower that dominated the Nile Valley and rivaled the Egyptians, ...

Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...

Amanda Knox served four years in an Italian prison for the murder of her British flatmate Meredith K...

At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leon...

Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been...

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven wit...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

In the 6th century AD, large parts of the world were affected by mysterious weather events causing t...
Uli Köhler and Nick Golücke have visited the protagonists of the 1990 World Cup 20 years after their...

A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imp...

Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. S...

Every summer on Palermo's Mondello beach, over 1,000 cabins are built in preparation of the Ferragos...